Welcome

Ours is a world of
storytelling by way of acting and writing, presented on stage,
radio, television, film or between the covers of a book. Creativity
is all. It has taken us not only to the very edges of our
imaginations, but from one end of the earth to the other playing
shows in Wick in Scotland to Invercargill in New Zealand - and all
the places in between. It’s a lifetime’s journey. Welcome to it.

John Cairney

John
Cairney is well known to audiences in Scotland and
internationally through his one-man shows on Robert Burns,
Robert Louise Stevenson, Robert Service, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
and William McGonagall.

In
more than fifty years as an artist, he has worked as an actor,
recitalist, lecturer, director and theatre consultant. He is also a
published author and an exhibited painter. Trained at the Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he was a notable Hamlet at the
Citizens' Theatre and a successful Macbeth at the Edinburgh Festival.
He was also 'This Man Craig' on television and has appeared in
many films like 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'A Night to Remember'.

He
gained a PhD. from Victoria University in Wellington, New
Zealand, and is much in demand internationally as a lecturer, writer
and consultant on Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
and Robert Burns. Dr Cairney has written books on each of these
famous Scots, as well as other books on football, theatre and
his native Glasgow, where he now lives with his New Zealand
wife, actress and scriptwriter, Alannah O'Sullivan.

Alannah O'Sullivan

Alannah's career as an actress and scriptwriter has spanned six continents and as many oceans.

After a stream of professional acting engagements at New Zealand's leading theatres, where she won the Best Actress accolade in all cities, she joined John Cairney in 'Two For A Theatre'. They toured the world, playing their own scripts on the Speakers' Circuit in the United States, the expatriate Scots circuit in Canada, appearing under the umbrella of the British Council in the Far East and inventing 'Theatre At Sea' for P&O Cruises.

Alannah has also played in many television roles in New Zealand and Britain, including ‘Eastenders’.

As a scriptwriter and editor in NZ & UK, Alannah has amassed a breadth of experience in television and film and has also adapted Spike Milligan's children's book, 'Badjelly, the Witch' as a stage show.

As a manager, she has produced for Shanter Productions, the Pennyfarthing Partnership and John Cairney Ltd. From 2016 she and John have operated under the banner of jandals partnership.